WyomingLiberty
Index
Wyoming
Liberty
Index
The Wyoming Liberty Index provides a service to Wyoming citizens. It allows you quickly to discover whether your Senator and Representative in Cheyenne support liberty. We do the tedious research for you! See the index pages below, starting with the most recent year.
The Index also serves as a "How'm I doing?" check for current legislators, and reminds them (one hopes) to make liberty a prime consideration in their votes.
Finally, the Index may be used by pro-freedom legislators to support their re-election campaigns, and by pro-freedom challengers to unseat anti-freedom legislators. The Wyoming Liberty Index is emailed or mailed to all legislative candidates prior to elections for this purpose.
Just in case there are legislators who want to improve their support for liberty, this page has a few suggestions.
The Indexes for the following legislative sessions are available:
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
This graphic shows the spending trends for discretionary ("Type 3") spending over the past several bienniums. Yes, it has roughly tripled in 10 years. The 05-06 biennium alone saw an incredible 55% increase. Our so-called "conservative" legislature is spending money like there is no tomorrow. Needless to say, this does not help freedom.
The source for this information is here.
A list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).
A discussion on methodology.
An explanation of how we decide what is liberty and what’s not, with examples from recent Wyoming legislative sessions.
A forum for discussion of bills, the legislature, and the Wyoming Liberty Index (thanks to Kenneth Royce for providing this site). You must be a member of the forum to participate in this discussion. Legislators are welcome to explain their votes or contest bill ratings, or however else they wish to contribute. Comments or questions from viewers of the Wyoming Liberty Index will be welcome there.
We no longer have links to Wyoming district maps (the state has removed them from their web site). The legislative website instructs you to contact your county clerk to discover which House and Senate districts you are in.
House and
Senate
members of the 59th legislature (2008).
The Wyoming Legislature website.
The Wyoming legislative leadership.
August, 2008: The final 2008 Index is published, along with a correction of the 2007 Index.
June, 2007: The final 2007 Index is published.
June, 2006: The final 2006 Index is published.
April, 2006: A preliminary 2006 Index is published. Also, a forum for the Wyoming Liberty Index is created.
October, 2005: The final 2005 Index is published.
July, 2005: Michael Hendricks comes on board, to help with rating bills.
February 26, 2005: The Wyoming Liberty Index gets a dedicated web site.
February 12, 2005: The final 2004 Index is published.
January, 2005: Bryan Thompson comes on board, to help automate the bill processing.
August 9, 2004: Wyoming Liberty Index cited in the Casper Star-Tribune.
Summer 2004: Wyoming Liberty Index cited in the Casper Journal voter's guide.
Other favorite quotes on Liberty
The following are a few websites also concerned in one way or another with liberty in Wyoming.
Free State Wyoming
Wyoming Free State
Wyoming Libertarian Party
Contact info (includes some background on Wyoming Liberty Index associates).
All the material in the Wyoming Liberty Index website is copyrighted. The author however grants everyone unconditional right to copy and distribute unmodified results or text from this site. To copy and distribute modified results (i.e., results derived from re-ranking bills in the spreadsheets) requires prior permission.